Social organisations celebrate Children’s Day in Darjeeling

Darjeeling, 14 Nov 2014: Darjeeling-based social organisations Hayden Hall and A-1 Educational Welfare Society on Friday observed Children’s Day by holding a games and dance prorgamme for children.

The programme was coordinated in three different places –

Chowrastha, Shruberry Park and the Red Cross Children’s Park. Students of eight primary schools had been invited to participate in the programme.

“We hosted the programme to make the kids feel that going to school is beneficial. Nowadays many children opt out or are not sent to schools. This is more frequent in government schools and this is why we invited only children of primary schools. The response was encouraging,” said Bharat Chhetri, general secretary of A-1 Educational Welfare Society.

The youngsters appeared a happy lot as they went about performing and interacting with their peers. “I am very happy to be part of all this as I made new friends today. I want to become a sportsperson when I grow up,” said Trishila Rai, who participated in the short distance run. There were no prizes for the winners but everyone received sweets and snacks.

The Edith Wilken’s Street Children Trust Fund, an NGO working to put an end to atrocities against minors, put up stickers against child labor across town to raise awareness among the public. (EOIC)

Kurseong cops tell kids they are good people too!

Kurseong, 14 November: On the occasion of Children’s Day, the Kurseong Traffic Police today tried to throw out the fear of police from children’s minds. While the cops distributed sweets and wished all the children passing by a happy Children’s Day, they also performed their duties and were fighting a heavy flow of traffic in the town.

School students and other children were visibly happy and it seemed they were enjoying the moment.

“My joy knows no bounds as a policeman gave me sweets. Our teachers in our school did give us sweets too, but receiving them from the cops is a different feeling altogether,” a small boy said. He added that this is the first time he has seen policemen engaged in such a thing.A college girl said she also received sweets from the policemen while on her way home and “it felt very happy, as it brought back memories of my school days when I used to receive sweets from my teachers.”

“But this time, it was different to get sweets from a policeman,” she added, joy writ large on her face.

Kurseong Traffic Police OC, Sanjeev Dutta, said they distributed eight packets of sweets since early morning today. “This is the first time that we distributed sweets on Children’s Day,” he said.According to him, in course of his duty in the daytime, he often sees parents pointing out to a policeman if their child misbehaved in public. “‘These people (cops) will take you if they do not behave properly,’ is what we often hear from parents whenever they are trying to discipline their children on the streets,” Mr Dutta said.

“The whole idea today was to take out that fear from the children’s minds and make them believe that police personnel too are like them and they are there to help them when in need,” he added. sns

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